Senior Backend Engineer
$190,000–$240,000 year
HybridMountain View Santa Clara County, California, United States
Job Summary
Own and deliver backend services and APIs for delivery operations and partner integrations. Build and extend data pipelines that ingest and process flight, vehicle, and telemetry data. Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of services supporting live operations while driving software verification, deployment, and observability across production systems. Provide technical support by triaging and resolving production and field issues. Collaborate with onboard software, operations, product, and safety teams in a small, agile, cross-functional environment. This hands-on role operates within a safety-critical setting for autonomous drone networks delivering goods in healthcare, logistics, food, and retail sectors.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years building and operating production backend systems, with a track record of owning major components independently
- Strong backend proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript, or a comparable modern language you can ramp from quickly
- Solid grounding in API design (GraphQL and/or REST), relational databases, data modeling, and system design
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD
- Strong practices around reliability, monitoring, and security
- Clear technical communication and cross-functional collaboration
- This is a hybrid role based at our Mountain View headquarters
- The ability to work and communicate efficiently online with a hybrid team is critical to success
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with fleet management, IoT/telemetry, or robotics systems
- Experience building with NestJS and Next.js (React a plus)
- Familiarity with event streaming or real-time messaging (Kafka, MQTT, or similar)
- Experience integrating with external partner systems and APIs
- UAV, aerospace, logistics, or other operationally critical domain experience
- Experience using AI coding assistants to accelerate development
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